About “Cry Like a Ghost”

During [a manic] period, he’d fallen in with some friends that encouraged his bad habits—friends like the “Sylvia” addressed in Gossamer’s “Cry Like a Ghost”, a bright beam of a song that originated from an abandoned beat created years before for rapper Jay Electronica."

What have the artists said about the song?

‘I Originally I wrote did the music for this in 2007 or 8. A figure that came into my life during this really hard time, [he/she] was a terrible influence on me and was a friend but, wasn’t helping me out in any way, just watching me kinda wither away’